Data Analysis in Astronomy

This book presents information on the following topics: the data analysis facilities that astronomers want; time analysis in astronomy; tools for periodicity searches; graphical methods of exploratory data analysis; multivariate statistics to analyze extraterrestrial particles from the ocean floor; application of bootstrap sampling in gamma-ray astronomy; an automated method for velocity field analysis; panel discussion on data analysis trends in x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; the Groningen image processing system; astronomical input to image processing - astronomical output from image processing; 2-D photometry; spectrometry; time dependent analysis; solar image processing with the Clark Lake Radioheliograph; steps toward parallel processing; new architectures for image processing; data structures and languages in support of parallel image processing for astronomy; and morphology and probability in image processing.